Installing the MySQLdb Extension

You can obtain the MySQLdb module for Python at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python. For Windows users, the MySQLdb module is packaged as a Windows executable. For Linux or Unix users, the module is packaged as a gzip tar archive; you should download the archive and, after unpacking it, run the following commands in the root directory of the archive (as the root user or using the sudo command):